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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 30 May 1994 13:23:37 MST
Date: 29 May 94 07:21:44 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!msuinfo!uchinews!iitmax!news@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Glass)
Organization: Illinois Institute Of Technology, Chicago.
Subject: Re: Spitbol reference?
Message-Id: <1994May29.072144.22870@iitmax.iit.edu>
References: <1994May24.212757.11431@midway.uchicago.edu>, <9405252345.AA3100@notes.notes>, <2s38k6$g2m@underdog.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Let's not critize Mr. Holman. There is a wonderful typographical error
in an example program at the end of the 2nd edition of the Snobol book
in which the "*" was omitted from a comment. The result is that an
English sentence (sans punctuation) is mixed in with the program source.
Even with a random English sentence added, there are no errors and
the program works as it was designed.
Ken Holman wrote, in part:
> The only thing I remember from Snobol was that there was no such thing as a
> syntax error.
-- Michael Glass
Caveat Poster